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+# Experiment Framework for EMB²
+
+## Overview
+
+This small toolkit helps with the automatic generation, building and execution
+of experiments. Currently it is limited to the generation of experiments for
+real-time tasksets for the EMB² library writtine in C++ (C++11); however, it
+should be easily extendable for other purposes, aswell.
+
+## Requirements
+
+Most of the scripts are written in Python (Python 3.5) and should therefore be
+usable on most operating systems. The following third-party libraries where
+used:
+
+* argparse
+* shutil
+* json
+* pystache
+
+Building and running the single experiments heavily relies on the buildutils and
+clang.
+
+## Usage
+
+All of the scripts have self-explaining usage messages, an exemplary experiment
+generation flow from generation to execution is given by the *run.sh* shell
+script.